Whatever you think of Elon up until this point, I don't see how you can find him reliable/trustworthy. He specifically said that @elonjet was ok and then reversed course on that.
Disagree, Elon has high credibility IMO, certainly higher than an anonymous source with incentives to slander. Not saying he is perfect but given the scrutiny he is under and how much he is “in the arena” pushing the envelope.
Elon is furthermore a software engineer (he wrote ALOT of code at zip2 & paypal) so your argument falls flat in that regard.
I truly don't know how anyone can believe a word Elon Musk says at this point. I'm not saying I trust Bezos either, but Elon has burned any shred of credibility he ever had.
It's really not. What Elon says is whatever is currently floating in his head or whatever he thinks will give him a stock boost.
He's not credible with respect to his companies plans. It's happened like dozens of times when he says something well or will not happen, and it turns out he was just lying.
The default stance of reading Elon today has to be, "this is probably a lie. Put no value in it until it is proven true".
Elon promising things and not delivering = he failed his promises in the past many multiple times, there is no reason to trust him further
Elon looking at his company's balance sheet or 1y forecast = hopefully there can't be too many things wrong in there, there is more reason to trust/believe statements regarding this.
Probably just a third party that Elon would trust to corroborate answers to questions. He probably hasn't made many friends in the Twitter building, and may not take what he's told at face value.
Personally I think Elon was foolish for calling the cave guy a pedo. But things like missed deadlines I don’t really think affect his credibility. It’s technology, estimates are hard.
Most of the supposed damage to Elon’s reputation is simply attacks by Twitter competitors. Think of the hoax a few weeks ago about people being forced to read his tweets.
On sincerity there's no harm in taking what he says at face value. Despite his intelligence I don't think someone as gaffe prone as Elon would be capable of fooling everyone.
If he had only said it once, sure. But Elon has repeatedly, year after year made the same claim only for it to turn out false. So either he's lying knowing full well it won't come to fruition, or he's incapable of accurately assessing progress. I strongly suspect the former, especially given his relationship with the truth on other things, but the latter makes him just as unreliable source of information.
He's obviously a liar at minimum.
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